Sentence examples for described as contrived from inspiring English sources

" The Court's reliance upon stare decisis can best be described as contrived.

O'Neill won followers by curating an Instagram account she described as "contrived perfection made to get attention".

Creationists habitually assume what William R. Overton, the judge in McLean v. Arkansas, described as a contrived dualism, whereby evidence against a natural explanation is necessarily evidence for a supernatural explanation.

In a couple of this book's entries, the author's attempts to write humorously about subjects that are far from humorous -- like the death of Anne Frank ("Possession") and pedophilia ("Chicken in the Henhouse") -- result in essays that can be described only as contrived and cringe-making.

An Australian teenager with more than half a million followers on Instagram has quit the platform, describing it as "contrived perfection made to get attention", and called for others to quit social media – perhaps with help from her new website.

Her own book becomes as contrived as the ones she is lampooning.

The Big Things I'm talking about aren't as contrived as Russell's bonce, but equally adored.

There is real roughness, and there is, well, Prada roughness, which is as contrived as any opulent architectural detail.

Frequently recommended as a learning modality, 1 5 simulation-based medical education is described as "devices, trained persons, lifelike virtual environments and contrived social situations that mimic problems, events, or conditions that arise in professional encounters".

And Girls is easily described as more authentically female because reality shows are so highly contrived by producers.

He solved that problem in 1784 with his invention of the parallel motion an arrangement of connected rods that guided the piston rod in a perpendicular motion which he described as "one of the most ingenious, simple pieces of mechanism I have contrived".